Put It in Print!

This home shows how prints can be both powerful and subtle, depending on their use. Capture some printed beauty of your own with Donna’s top tips for using prints in your house.

1. FOCAL POINT: Home in on collecting a large assortment of colors and

prints that resonate with each other and create a concept.

2. CURATE THE COLLECTION: Ensure that your items have various changes in the scale, repetition and theme of the patterns.

3. BALANCING ACT: The key to combining prints is to have a balanced assortment of positive and negative patterns and colors.

4. SLIDING SCALE: Arrange your textiles starting with a large-scale print, moving to a medium scale, and then to a small scale, so you can see which ones work together. Then get to mixing, layering and integrating.

5. BLANK SLATE: Always use the floor or a wall as your drawing board. Looking down and away from a dimension beneath you exaggerates all the nuances of the textiles.

SMALL SPACE SMARTS. The boys’ en suite bathroom was added to their second-floor bedroom. Since the space already had a small footprint, Donna had to be extra creative with the layout in order to comfortably fit in all the architectural elements. “Because of this, a corner sink worked best! It also created an opportunity to really enhance the interiors,” she says.